כָּרַת

ka.rat · to cut: eliminate

Hebrew · Strong's H3772 · Verb · Sounds like: kaw-rath' · 288 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to cut: eliminate H3772I · a Meaning of 137
  • to cut: make(covenant) H3772H · a Meaning of 88
  • to cut: cut H3772G 52
  • to cut: lack H3772J · a Meaning of 11

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces); be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כָּרַת 291 vb. cut off, cut down
Qal
1. cut off
2. cut down
3. hew, timber
4. cut, or make a covenant
Niph.
1. be cut off
2. be cut down
3. be chewed between the teeth
4. be cut off, in a more general sense fail
Pual
1. be cut off
2. be cut down
Hiph.
1. cut off, flattering lips
2. cut off, destroy the life of
3. cut down, destroy, cities
4. take away
5. permit to perish

Every occurrence

  1. Jeremiah 34:15 וַתִּכְרְת֤וּ va.tikh.re.Tu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by all of you

    And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

  2. Jeremiah 34:18 כָּרְת֖וּ ka.re.Tu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;

  3. Jeremiah 34:18 כָּרְת֣וּ ka.re.Tu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;

  4. Jeremiah 35:19 יִכָּרֵ֨ת yi.ka.Ret · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

  5. Jeremiah 44:7 לְהַכְרִ֨ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Therefore now thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;

  6. Jeremiah 44:8 הַכְרִ֣ית hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

  7. Jeremiah 44:11 וּלְהַכְרִ֖ית u.le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

  8. Jeremiah 46:23 כָּרְת֤וּ ka.re.Tu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

  9. Jeremiah 47:4 לְהַכְרִ֤ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

  10. Jeremiah 48:2 וְנַכְרִיתֶ֣נָּה ve.nakh.ri.Te.nah · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee.

  11. Jeremiah 50:16 כִּרְת֤וּ kir.Tu · A command to all of you: simple action

    Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

  12. Jeremiah 51:62 לְהַכְרִית֔וֹ le.hakh.ri.To · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    and say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

  13. Ezekiel 14:8 וְהִכְרַתִּ֖יו ve.hikh.ra.Tiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

  14. Ezekiel 14:13 וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;

  15. Ezekiel 14:17 וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י ve.hikh.ra.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;

  16. Ezekiel 14:19 לְהַכְרִ֥ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

  17. Ezekiel 14:21 לְהַכְרִ֥ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

  18. Ezekiel 16:4 כָרַּ֣ת kha.Rat · An action: strong action received, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

  19. Ezekiel 17:13 וַיִּכְרֹ֥ת vai.yikh.Rot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

  20. Ezekiel 17:17 לְהַכְרִ֖ית le.hakh.Rit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

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